I am very fortunate that my wife likes to dive with me. I enjoy seeing her being amazed at the under water world, and it is great to share it with some one you love.

There are a few little things that kind of bug me sometimes though. For example:

She loves to hold my hand most of the time, although now its getting a little bit better.When we kick out to the kelp beds I have to tow her when she gets tired.Her mask fogs up a lot.She blows through her air in half the time I do.

Things I love She cracks me up under water.laying on our backs watching our bubbles and the sea life go by.Taking selfies of us togethertalking about how cool the dive we just had!

I know I'm forgetting some things. But tell me what you love or what drives you crazy when you dive with your spouse.​

The virtue of patience is a great quality to have and to practice. That is why I am really glad that scuba diving has really help me progress in this area. Patience reflects self control and the capacity to wait to do certain things with out getting angry or frustrated. I have learned to appreciate this trait and have seen its value. I am still learning to be more patient on many aspects and especially when taking video, it seems that this quality is vital in many respects.

I wonder how many view patience as a vital trait, one should always strive to master?

I seem to be prone to losing almost every type of gear imaginable. So far I have lost the following:

An awesome xs scuba dive knifedive light with a camera pole and a camera on it ( this was a big ticket item.one split finone dive mask

I have taken a few measures to improve my chances on not losing stuff like leashing some of these items down. But it seems some of the other items will have to fall under the know where your gear is rule, and have a specific routine to follow to check on it.

Have you ever had a minor nagging choking episode during your dive that makes it difficult to breathe. Well I did on my last dive and I found myself struggling to get rid of it. I will say that I did try swallowing but my throat was really dry as I was already 3/4 into the dive. It is worth mentioning that I also believe that I may have made this choking spit condition (real medical terminology), by having a large cup of coffee to warm me up rather than my usual water.

I tried holding my reg and coughing several times and I only felt a slight improvement. I then decided to take a small sip of sea water and swallow down hard and the "stuff" went down the tubes.

I am not sure if this was correct but it is what happened and what I ended up doing.

My question to you is have you ever had this kind of episode and what did you do to remedy it?

Wanted to put this out as a precaution to all who use ditchable weight pockets.

My wife encountered a scary incident a while back which created an uncontrolled ascent. It was due to her weight falling out of her weight pocket. She told me after the dive that she believes that she inadvertently must have unsecured her velcro on her weight pocket when she was putting something in her side pocket. She tried to grab me but the force pulling her upwards did not let her and she started ascending, luckily she remembered to exhale out instead of holding her breath ( avoiding pulmonary barotrauma). It was a very scary incident and we made some changes to avoid this that I want to share with you all. I do believe whether it is a buckle that fails or whether it is an undone/ or worn out velcro that the potential of this happening to anyone is great. It is worth mentioning and thinking about what can be done to help prevent this from occuring. One thing I do want to point out is that we very lucky in that the we were at the end of our dive and at a shallow depth at 15. DCS was not a concern but lung expansion can occur if proper technique is not practiced even at shallow depth.

I want to share some of the changes we made and perhaps you can chime in and add some of your own thoughts on this matter:

First we thoroughly check out the velcro and made sure that they were not worn out and they still kept the weight pocket fully secured.

We also put more weights toward the back of the bc in the trim pockets, to help distribute some of the weight.

I have also have practiced with her the dumping of air and finning down hard to avoid the quick ascent.

I know that there are probably a few more things that could be done to help avoid this and I hope some can share there knowledge with us and others to help prevent incidents as best as possible such as this.

I was wondering how many feel using the DSMB is a good deterrent against on comming boats, jet ski's, or other vessels. Initially I thought of using the DSMB for this purpose after seeing this jet ski zooming around the dive site. But then again this might be more harmful than good if a vessel sees this and wants to come to investigate or have a closer look. I know that it is primarily used as a signaling device for boat pickups.

How many of you feel it can be used to help avoid an incident with oncoming vessels by signaling before surfacing?

Do you have any suggestions on what you should do to help your chances on not getting hit by approaching vessels?